Posted on January 9, 2008 at 6:02 PM
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It’s been a pretty busy week for me, so I’ve not been able to examine all the Cardinal related news and blogs like I would have liked. But in the limited time I’ve been online, there’ve been a few things that have jumped out at me.
The biggest one is this rumor with the Pirates involving Brad Thompson, among others on our side and players such as Jack Wilson, Matt Morris and Jason Bay on the other side. Bay is the only one in that group worth getting. Sure, maybe you take Morris on if the Pirates take a lot of salary and if it helps you get Bay, but other than that, there’s not much value.
Tom over at CardinalsGM really broke this deal down. I agree with him, if it’s Duncan, Thompson and Reyes going for Bay, Morris and Wilson, you can’t do that deal. If you could get Bay for Reyes and Thompson, you’d probably have to do some serious thinking about it, even though outfield is where the Cardinals are overstocked at the moment.
Wilson makes no sense with the glut of mediocre middle infielders we already have. Why bring on another one, especially at that price?
Also, over at VEB, they’ve started the community projections. We did this at CCH last year and you may remember seeing the results. We’ll start them up at the Clubhouse soon, but if you’ve not had a chance to put in your thoughts on what Matt Clement will wind up with (and I need to do that), head on over there and post them.
Finally, there was no movement on Mark McGwire getting into the Hall of Fame this year. He received exactly the same number of votes as he did last year, putting him around 23%. Something is going to have to give, though. Either players like Bonds and Clemens aren’t going to get in when they are eligible or people are going to have to give a second look to McGwire. Heck, he wasn’t even named in the Mitchell Report as a steroid user, so why does he not get a little more benefit of the doubt? I wish he’d come out and talk about it, but if he’s not going to, should that be held against him?
Hopefully we aren’t still having this discussion 10 years from now, but I wouldn’t put it past the baseball writers.
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